An Amish Moment
Amish books and Amish baseball. Amish are clearly having a moment… again. Continue Reading →
Category: Timeless
"Growing Pains of Transformation"
Michelle Aldredge of Gwarlingo interviews author and former nun Mary Johnson about her new book, An Unquenchable Thirst. Continue Reading →
“Growing Pains of Transformation”
Michelle Aldredge of Gwarlingo interviews author and former nun Mary Johnson about her new book, An Unquenchable Thirst. Continue Reading →
40 Years of The Exorcist
2013 marks not just 40 years of Roe v. Wade but 40 years of The Exorcist, the classic horror movie about piety and possession in a little girl’s upstairs bedroom. Continue Reading →
Commie Harry
“What really makes these critics hate Million Dollar Baby is not its supposedly radical politics — which are nonexistent — but its lack of sentimentality. It is, indeed, no Rocky, and in our Continue Reading →
The Longest Hunger Strike
By Ann Neumann There are two places in the U.S. where you can be fed against your will: a Catholic hospital and a prison. Continue Reading →
Removing the Magic
Quoting Charles Taylor quoting Schiller; from his essay “Disenchantment–Reenchantment” in The Joy of Secuarlism, now out in paperback. Continue Reading →
An Event in the History of the Human Mind
“Panopticism is a form of knowledge and a form of power.” Continue Reading →
More Songs of Kabir
From Patton Burchett’s “Religions of India” class, 28 poems after Kabir, the celebrated 15-16th century devotional poet and social critic from northern India. Continue Reading →
Holy Regulation
William Hogeland on Herman Husband, the War of the Regulation and his new book, Founding Finance Continue Reading →